Seperate from the rest of the world! in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17185788 en Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:16:09 EDT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:16:09 EDT Re: Seperate from the rest of the world! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17221102 DufiefData : Hey, if Iran could just divert some of the money they're spending on uranium processing and buy some high-bandwidth backbone links instead.....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17221102 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:12:59 EDT Re: Seperate from the rest of the world! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17189420 footballdude :
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said by MysticGogeta See Profile :

We don't want our citizens getting the idea our Government sucks, then they might over throw us..
LOL, I figured that out with a 1200 baud modem in the 80's :)
I figured it out before modems, when Jimmy Carter was in office. I was so excited to see him elected, then WHAM! sucker punch to the gut.
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said by MysticGogeta See Profile :

We don't want our citizens getting the idea our Government sucks, then they might over throw us..
LOL, I figured that out with a 1200 baud modem in the 80's :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17186310 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:45:39 EDT Re: Seperate from the rest of the world! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17186004 Mercurybird : I agree with your points of view. Even their El Presidente doesn't utter a syllable that isn't preapproved by their Mullas.

You want to see what the internet will do to their country, just look at China. If I were trying to bring down a massive dam, a crack would do, if I'm patient.

Over here we take the internet so for granted. Over there, the internet is the voice of democracy. And that voice is a megaphone. Its the proverbial 800 lb gorilla in the room.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17186004 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:45:30 EDT Re: Seperate from the rest of the world! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17185872 swhx7 : On one level it's about morality, according to the norms in Iran. Narrowband-only makes it a little harder for Western culture to influence the population (fewer images with the text, less music and movies). They've started enforcing the longstanding ban on satellite dishes too, which used to be very lax.

But it's really about maintaining the power of the clerics who control the government. There's a system of religious councils or something similar, parallel to the formal government, which more or less dictates domestic policy. But the younger generation want more freedom, in male/female relations and other areas. There was a trend to liberalization before the US started threatening Iran. Now it's going more conservative again.

The internet might become more valuable for communications if the US attacks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17185872 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:22:03 EDT Re: Seperate from the rest of the world! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17185814 Luwigie : Doesn't seem to makes sense to me... You can see information about other countries and realize that yours sucks at 128 kbps, or 16 KB/s. I guess I don't understand the thinking behind this.

Shoot, some of us in the US still don't have that fast of an option =)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17185814 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:12:27 EDT Seperate from the rest of the world! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17185788 MysticGogeta : We don't want our citizens getting the idea our Government sucks, then they might over throw us..
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